Fig. 2From: Childhood obesity and adult cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review with meta-analysisRisk of bias assessment using STROBE instrument for each study. Legend: STROBE-Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) instrument is a checklist of 22 items related to the title, abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussion sections of the articles. Each study was assessed for the 22 items. The total number of “yes” (low risk), “no” (high risk), or “unclear” items were added and divided by the total number of items for each study and multiplied by 100 in order to report the results in percentages. Scores were adjusted for NA responses. The STROBE checklist is available at: http://strobe-statement.org/index.php?id=available-checklists Back to article page